The Oxford Encyclopaedia of the Music of India (OEMI) in three volumes covers history, theory and technical terms, musicians and scholars, and instruments related to Indian music. Edited by the Sangeet Mahabharati, it was published by the Oxford University Press in 2011. Out of the total of 5,000 encyclopaedia entries, approximately 2,000 on musicians and 500 on raga names were extracted to build this database.
 

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Personal ID
OEMI ID
Name
Field
Notes about Field
Speciality
Place of Residence
Year of Birth
Date of Birth
Place of Birth
Year of Death
Date of Death
Place of Death
Gharana
Guru
Page
OEMI1713
Rajkumar Priyogopal Sana
Well-known exponent of Manipuri dance, also an expert in Manipuri martial arts
1910
Imphal, Manipur
his father Rajkumar Suryaboro Singh
866
OEMI1791
Ranganathaswami Nigadikar
composer
performer and composer of Marathi aakhyaans for keertans
1612
?
1684
?
887
OEMI1849
Sakharam Mridangacharya
pakhaawaj player, teacher
1879
1025
Indore
1967
0119
?
Balwantrao, Shankar-bhaiya, Panse
915
OEMI1907
Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer
vocalist
Celebrated vocalist who preserved the south Indian classicism of the masters of the mid-20th cent
1908
0725
Tirukodikaval, Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu
2003
0131
Chennai
his brother Narayanaswami Iyer
960961
OEMI2070
Sundaram Iyer （Umayalpuram）
Noted performer of ghatam （pot-drum）
?
?
1030
OEMI2095
Swapnasundari Rao Prakash
Kuuchipuudi dancer, teacher
Chennai
Pasumarty Seethaaraamayya, Yeleswarupu Suryaprakash, Vempati Chinna Satyam
10441045
OEMI2221
Vithabai Narayangaokar
Laavani singer and tamaashaa artise.
1928
Solapur
2002
0115
Pune, Maharashtra
Bhau Mang Narayangaokar
1139
P00206
OEMI2174
Vasudevan Nambodiri （Nelliyodu）
Kathakali artiste
1940
Ernakulam district, Kerala
Vazhenkada Kunchu Nair, etc...
1118
OEMI2183
Vengichan Swami （Thiruvilwamala）
Performer of the drum, maddalam, for Kathakali
0.1873
Thiruvilwaamala, Thrissur district, Kerala
?
his uncle Chittan Pattar and Chinnaswami Bhagavatar （maddalam）
1121
OEMI0304
Bapurao Pendharkar
Singer-actor of the Marathi stage
1892
1210
Jamkhindi, Maharashtra
1937
0315
Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh
Ramkrishna-bua Vaze
121
OEMI0334
Bhairav Prasad Misra
tabla player
Noted tabla player of the Benares gharaanaa
0.1844
Patna
1940
1221
probably Benares
Benares gharaanaa
Bhagat Maharaj
150
OEMI0358
Bhav Singh(Maharaja)
patron,
Royal patron of Bhavnagar,a princely state of Gujarat
1875
0425
?
1919
0717
?
169
OEMI0397
Bishweshwar Bandyopadhyaya
vocalist
Dhrupad singer
dhrupad
1833
Balagard, Hooghly district, Bengal
1911
Kolkata
195
OEMI0404
Brahmananda Paradesi
vocalist
Vocalist(19th cent.)
?
?
?
?
199
OEMI0441
Chandrasekharaiah, R.
vocalist, composer
Eminent vocalist and composer
1915
0604
Mysore city,
221
OEMI0486
Chinnaswamy Mudaliar, A.M.
A pioneer in modern compilation of musical compositions
?
20
?
240
OEMI0532
Dattatraya Narayan Panchakshari
Harmonium player
1912
0512
?
1981
0821
Baroda,Gujarat
his father,Narayan Panchakshari
259
OEMI0534
Dattopant Hallyalkar
Singer-actor of Marathi stage
1875
0129
?
1916
0218
?
260
P00148
OEMI0663
Gaurishankar Devilal
Noted Kathak dancer
1918
Kanvari town, Rajasthan
1992
0220
Mumbai
his father Devilal, Shivlal and Sundar Prasad
350
OEMI0724
Gopalakrishna Sastri
A pioneer （18th cent.） in theatrical arts
?
?
375
OEMI0835
Hira Singh Boralia
Folk artiste of Madhya Pradesh
1934
0612
Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh
Ram Narayan, Harlal Makwana, Bhailal Barot, Devilal Samar
431
OEMI0843
Honavar Krishnabhat
vocalist, teacher
Teacher and vocalist
0.1878
Gokarn, South Karnataka
1942
Shirali, in the same region
S.N. Ratanjankar, S.C.R. Bhat
434
OEMI0871
Inayat Khan （Author）
Author
?
?
442
OEMI0873
Inayat Khan 'Rasikh'
musician
Author of an Urdu work in music and musicians
?
?
442
OEMI0966
Jyotindranath Tagore
Scion and contributor to the musico-literary traditions of the Tagore family
1849
Kolkata
1925
Ranchi, Bihar
490
OEMI1021
Kannayya Bhagavatar
vocalist
Vocalist
Tamli Nadu
1846
Travancore,Kerala
516
P00167
OEMI1054
Keshava Murthy, H.R.
Bharata Naatyam teacher
1920
Chickmaglur district, Karnataka
Guru Gundappa
540
OEMI1117
Krishnashankar Shukla
old-timer in media music
1911
0817
Ujjain,Madhya Pradesh
1992
0807
?
573
OEMI1168
Lakshminath Bezbarua
Assamese Litterateur, also known for his patriotic songs
1868
?
1938
?
591
OEMI1299
Matrubhotayya(Kavi)
composer
Noted composer of the pre-Tyaagaraaja period
?
?
?
?
657
OEMI1309
Minakshi Sundaram Pillai Ⅱ
tavil player
Tavil player
1894
0903
Needamangalam,Tamil Nadu
1949
0213
?
Singaram Pillai and Govinda Pillai
662
OEMI1409
Muthayya Bhagavatar
vocalist
Vocalist
1850
?
1900
?
704
OEMI1460
Narasimha Bhagavatar
vocalist
Late 19th-cent. vocalist
?
?
Rama Iyengar
725
OEMI1477
Narayanadeva Dvija
Seventeeth-century poet of Maanasaa Ojaapaali songs of Assam
?
?
728
OEMI1492
Narayanrao Mangalwedhekar
Reputed pakhaawaj player and teacher
?
1980
0613
?
731
OEMI1495
Nariswar Sarma Barua
teacher
Well-known teacher
1911
0112
Dipila,Darrang district,Assam
1986
1011
Dipila
his father Tapeswar Sarma and Chandrakantadeva Sarma
731
P00073
OEMI1545
Nivrutti-bua Sarnaik
vocalist
Reputed vocalist and teacher
1912
0704
Kolhapur, Maharashtra
1994
0216
?
his uncle Shankarrao Sarnaik
764765
P00887
OEMI1661
Puttur Devdas Joshi
violinist
violinist
1926
09??
?
1986
1030
?
Ganesh,T.Chowdiah,P.Sambamoorthy
834
OEMI1664
Pyar Khan (Seni;sursingar)
sursingaar player
Generally considered to be the co-innovator of the sursingaar along with his brother Zaffar Khan.
1782
presumably Lucknow
1849
Lucknow
Chhajju Khan
834835
OEMI1670
Radhamohan Sendas
musicologist,
a pioneer musicologist,scholar
1770
Kolkata
1840
Kolkata
843
OEMI1757
Ramchandra Mohapatra
vocalist
Vocalist
1929
0715
Balasore, Orissa
Bhagavat Mohanty, Singhari Shyam Sunder Kar
877
P00212
OEMI1772
Ramkumar Chatterji
vocalist
vocalist
1920
Kolkata
?
Rajendralal Chatterji, Zamiruddin Khan
881
OEMI1798
Ranjit Adhikarimayum
performer of Manipuri dance, choreographer
1957
0301
Imphal, Manipur
Tarunkumar Singh, Anganhal Singh
888
OEMI1800
Raoji-bua Belbaugkar
vocalist, teacher
vocalist, teacher
?
1906
Pune
V.N. Bhatkhande
888
OEMI1818
Roprasik Devacharya
composer
composer
?
?
902
P00214
OEMI1824
Rukmini Devi Arundale
dance exponent
1904
0229
Chennai
1986
0224
Chennai
904
OEMI1917
Shadi Khan （Benares）
Noted tappaa singer of the mid-19th cent.
?
?
963
OEMI2012
Somadasa, Elvitigala
composer
Music composer of the stage, films, and radio
1925
1001
Kattota, near Veyangoda, Sri Lanka
1990
0827
Colombo
992
OEMI2016
Someswara Bhagavatar
vocalist
Noted vocalist of Bangalore
1891
?
1943
?
Noorani Mahadeva Bhagavatar
993
OEMI2053
Sukavi Narayanadeva
poet and compiler of Manasaa Ojaapaali songs
?
?
?
?
1026
OEMI2125
Thouranishabi Devi,L.
Manipuri danseuse
1946
1103
Imphal,Manipur
G.Iboton Sharma,Chongtham Achou,Okram Leikai,and Thangjam Munal.
1078
OEMI2160
Vaman-bua Chaphekar
vocalist
vocalist
1879
Miraj, Maharashtra
1964
?
Balkrishna-bua
1112
P01704
OEMI2168
Vasanthakumari, M.L.
vocalist
vocalist
1928
0603
Chennai
1990
1031
Chennai
Ayyaswami Ayyar, Madras Lalithangi, G.N.Balasubramaniam, Mudikondan Venkatarama Iyer, Vasanthakumari
11161117
P00241
OEMI2181
Vempati Chinna Satyam
Well-known Kuuchipuudi dancer
1929
1025
Kuchipudi village, Andhra Pradesh
Tadepalli Perayya Sastri, Vedantam Lakshminarayana Sastry, Chandrakala and Yedavalli Rama
1121
P00016
OEMI2185
Venkata Rao （Chintalapalli）
vocalist
Vocalist
0.1875
?
1969
Mysore
his uncles Bhaskar Rao and Venkataramayya and some others
1121
OEMI2195
Venkitadri Swamigal
vocalist,composer
Composer and vocalist
1806
Allur, Krishna district, Andhra Pradesh
1876
?
1123
OEMI2238
Wamanrao Sadolikar
vocalist
Noted vocalist and actor-singer of the Marathi stage
1907
0916
Sadoli,near Kolhapur,Maharashtra
1991
0326
Mumbai
Jaipur-Atraauli
Wamanrao Padhye, Vishnu Digambar Paluskar.
1145
P00245
OEMI2264
Zia Fariduddin Dagar
vocalist
Dhrupad vocalist
1933
Rajasthan
1160
OEMI1598
Parameswara Bhagavatar (Palakkad)
vocalist
vocalist
1815
Palakkad region,Kerala
1892
?
798
OEMI1910
Sesha Ayyangar （Margadarsi）
vocalist
Early 18th-cent. composer and vocalist of Karnatik music
?
?
961
OEMI2141
Tyagaraja Bhagavatar, M.K.
singer-actor
Famous singer-actor of Tamil films of the pre-1950s
Tamil films
1910
0301
Mayavaram, Tamil Nadu
1959
1101
Chennai
the Alathur Brothers, Papanasam Sivan, and Vaithikulam Swamigal
1099
P00132
OEMI0271
Balasubramaniyam,G.N.
vocalist
Reputed vocalist
1910
01??
?
1965
0501
Thiruvananthapuram,Kerala
111112
OEMI0316
Bavdekar-pant Amatya
patron,
Music patron of Kolhapur
?
1929
Kolhapur
130131
OEMI0568
Dharmapuri Subbarayar
composer
Well-known composer of jaavali
?
?
?
?
284
OEMI0671
Ghanshyamlal Goswami
Performer of the pakhaawaj and harmonium
1876
Mathura, Uttar Pradesh
1953
?
355
OEMI0720
Gopala Iyer （Pallavi）
vocalist
Reputed vocalist of the durbar of Maharajas Amara Simha and Sarabhoji II of Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
?
?
374
P00155
OEMI0830
Himant Kumar Jamatia
Singer of folk and tribal music of Tripura
1954
Trishabari, Tripura
423
OEMI0872
Inayat Khan （Dhrupad）
vocalist, composer
Vocalist and composer of dhrupads
?
?
the family
442
OEMI1059
Kesi, Narayanaswamy
Noted flute player
1919
Chennai
T. Brinda
541
OEMI1130
Kumaraswamy lyer,K.R.
vocalist
veteran vocalist
1913
0409
Kettavarampalayam,Tamil Nadu
Mecheri Sundara Sastri
578
OEMI1167
Lakshminarayan Rajak
Folk artiste of Madhya Pradesh
Sagar, Madhya Pradesh
?
his father Chhotelal Rajak
591
OEMI1461
Narasimha Dasa （Tumu）
composer
Composer of devotional songs in Telugu
devotional songs in Telugu
1790
Andhra
?
725726
OEMI1480
Narayanaswami Appa
Mridangam celebrity of the state of Thanvavur, Tamil Nadu
Thanjavur
0.1906
Thanjavur
728
OEMI1481
Narayanaswami Ayyar
vocalist
Vocalist 19th cent.
?
?
728
OEMI1486
Narayanaswamy, K.S.
veena player
Veteran veena player of the Thavancore style
1914
0927
Koduvayur, near Palakkad, Kerala
1999
1209
?
Thavancore style
729
OEMI1487
Narayanaswamy, K.V.
vocalist
Noted vocalist and teacher
1923
Palakkad, Kerala
Palghat Mani Iyer, Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar, C.S. Krishna Iyer, K.S. Venkataramayya
729
OEMI1595
Papavinasa Mudaliar
composer
composer
?
?
795
OEMI1606
Parvatiprasad Baruah
composer
singer,composer
1904
Sibsagar district,Assam
1964
?
800
P00090
OEMI1953
Sharatchandra Arolkar
vocalist
Senior vocalist of the Gwaalior tradition
1912
1202
Karachi
1994
0604
Mumbai
Gwaalior
Laxmanrao Bodas, Krishnarao Shankar Pandit, Eknath Pandit, Krishnarao Mulay
968
OEMI2001
Sivaraman （Kottakkal）
Kathakali artiste
1936
Palakkad district, Kerala
2010
0719
Karalmanna, Kerala
Vazhenkada Kunchu Nair
988
OEMI2025
Sourindra Mohan Tagore
musicologist,patron
Reputed musicologist and patron
1840
?
Pathuriaghata,Kolkata
1914
0605
Kolkata
998999
OEMI2108
Tarapada Chakravarti
vocalist
Well-known vocalist,an early exponent of khayaal in Bengali language.
khayaal
1909
04??
Kotalipara[now in Bangladesh]
1975
0901
Kolkata
Satkadi Malakar and Girija Shankar Chakravarti
10661067
P00238
OEMI2124
Thingbaijam Babu Singh
Well-known Manipuri dance exponent and teacher of Imphal
1936
0208
Lairensajik village,Manipur
Laisram Apabi Singh,and in Raas dance under Maisnam Amubi Singh
1078
OEMI2126
'Tiger'Varadachariar
vocalist
Noted vocalist and teacher
1876
0801
Kolathur,Tamil Nadu
1950
0131
Chennai
Appadurai Iyer and his son Ramachandran
1079
OEMI2131
Titte Krishna lyengar
vocalist, teacher
Veteran vocalist and teacher.
1902
?
Mysore city
1997
0316
Mysore city
1085
OEMI0423
Chakradhar Singh Judeo(Raja)
patron,
Ruler of Raigarh principalty,well-known patron of the arts,archivist,music enthusiast.
1905
0811
Raigarh,Madhya Pradesh
1947
1007
?
211
OEMI0743
Govindasambayya （Margadarsi）
Pioneer of taana-varnams
?
?
381382
OEMI0800
Harendra Kishore Roy Choudhuri
patron,musician
Patron and musician
0.1887
Ramgopalpur, now in Bangladesh
0.195
?
tabla; Natthu Khan, Prasanna Kumar Banikya, Masid Khan, Maulaviram, Abid Hussain Khan
410
OEMI1478
Narayana-maharaj Jalvankar
Performer and writer of Marathi keertans
1806
?
1868
?
Narayanbhat Devrukhe
728
P00100
OEMI1508
Nataraja Sundaram Pillai,T.S.
Naagaswaram player
Naagaswaram player
1896
0430
?
1994
0312
Chennai
his father T.Swaminatha Pillai
739
OEMI2186
Venkata Subbayyar （Uttukkadu）
composer
Composer of keertanam in Tamil and Sanskrit
0.17
Uttukkaadu, Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu
1765
?
Nidamangalam Raja Bhagavatar
11211122
OEMI0941
Jitendra Mohan Sengupta
Author
Kolkata
480
OEMI1088
Kodandarama Iyer, T.P.
Compiler of bhakti sangeet
1861
Tamil Nadu
1934
?
560
OEMI1109
Krishnaraja Wodeyar Ⅲ
patron,
royal patron of music and author
?
?
571572
P00099
OEMI1229
Mahalingam,T.R.(Mali)
flute player
A master of the flute
1926
11??
Thalainayar village,Thanjavur district,Tamil Nadu
1986
0531
?
619620
OEMI1357
Mohammad Shah 'Rangile'
patron,
Mughal Emperor,a great patron of the performing arts
1702
0817
Ghazni,Afghanistan
1748
0406
Delhi
681
OEMI1420
Muttu Ayyar(Karaikudi)
mridangam player
1901
?
?
Tirugokarnam Sivanandam Pillai
706
OEMI1442
Nana-saheb Joglekar
Singer-actor of the Marathi stage
1875
0208
?
1911
1115
?
720
OEMI1511
Natharam Sharma Gaur
writer
Writer and artiste of nautanki plays
nautanki plays
1874
?
Dariyapur village, Aligarh district, Uttar Pradesh
1943
?
Hathras
740
OEMI1826
Rukminibai Tampuratti
composer
Princess-composer of the Travancore (Kerala) royal family.
1800
?
1838
Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
905